DC considers letting 16-year-olds vote

The Hill ^

[Java4Jay]

A council member in Washington, D.C., has introduced legislation that would lower the age to vote in federal and local elections to 16.

[Java4Jay]

Seven of the 13 members of the D.C. Council are backing the measure, advocates of the proposal told WUSA-TV.

[Slyfox]

That means that 16 year-old illegals are now going to be able to vote.

Is there no shame?

[max americana]

why not go 8 year old you pathetic jackholes

[Ingtar]

It is also against Federal law, but that won’t stop them.

[ealgeone]

Yet another reason why DC is not supposed to be given the same rights as a state.

[polymuser]

Good night, America.
Good morning, Lord of the Flies.

[Thrownatbirth]

What’e the worse they can do? Elect a convicted felon?

[robroys woman]

Heh. This is one reason the electoral college is so important. They could rig their elections to the point where every vote is for democrats. It wouldn’t matter to the rest of us.

If I lived there, I’d leave.

And they may make a nice canary in the coal mine.

[2harddrive]

Can 16-year-old’s buy guns in DC? Regulations to vote should be the same as for buying guns.

[PIF]

“... lower the age to vote in federal and local elections to 16.”

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The official stated that if all the kids vote often and well, they will consider lowering the age to vote in federal and local elections to 16 months ...

[hadaclueonce]

Do they have to eat Tide Pod and suck a rubber up their noses first?

[elpadre]

I suggest they check out what the US Constitution says.

[slag]

In this day and age of liberal thinking there is no need to change the voting age, the children can now just self-identify as a 23 year old and legally vote. We have truly become a banana republic, Pres. Trump is our last hope before all is lost.

[advance_copy]

End home rule now.

[miss marmelstein]

Then make them eligible for the draft and allow them to drink and drug.

[Sopater]

Regulations to vote should be the same as for buying guns.

You mean like background checks and no history of felonies or domestic violence?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I think that lowering the voting age in DC to 16 is a Capitol idea! They should go ahead with the change on a trial basis. They should reduce the voting age only for the election of the DC representative to the Senate. 😜

[Yo-Yo]

Local elections? Okay, that’s up to them. Federal elections? Not without a Constitutional Amendment, they’re not.

[Yo-Yo]

I stand corrected. The 26th Amendment prohibits discrimination in voting rights against anyone 18 or older, but does not prohibit voting by those younger than 18. In this discussion of the 26th amendment, it was stated that although the 14th Amendment prohibited states from discriminating against males 21 and older, it didn't prohibit states from lowering the voting age below 21.

[DownInFlames]

26th Amendement
[Proposed 1971; Ratified 1971]

25th amendment

Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation